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About: Edwina Williams

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Edwina is a journalist at the Ballarat Times News Group, and Golden Plains Times, based in Ballarat. She is a passionate art lover and photographer, who enjoys capturing the colour and life of the city in her own time. Edwina has worked as a social media management contractor, and has had previous news experience with the ABC’s flagship current affairs program, 7.30, Victoria Votes for Channel 31, and Junction Journalism. Contact her at [email protected] Twitter - @edwinawilltweet Facebook - @edwinawilliamsjourno

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January 13, 2022

Neighbourly support strong following Creswick floods

A SUPERCELL storm, and following days of heavy rain, hid Creswick and surrounds under high flood waters last week. Creswick resident Fiona Watson lives at...

January 13, 2022

Races to see this RoadNats week

ELITE cyclists are currently in Ballarat and Buninyong for the Australian Road National Championships, and you can get amongst the action until Sunday, 16...

January 13, 2022

Club strikes gold as Miners return

AHEAD of the start of the Coles Express NBL1 South season in April, three major basketballers have re-signed with the Ballarat Miners. Zac Dunmore, Will...

January 13, 2022

Seeking the city’s next top athlete

DO you know, train with, or coach an outstanding high-level local athlete? The Ballarat Sportsmen’s Club is seeking nominations for their annual Sportsperson of the...

January 12, 2022

National Boys Choir on the Goldfields

THE National Boys Choir of Australia will bring Ballarat Trades Hall alive in classical song this weekend. As part of their Gippsland to Goldfields series...

January 10, 2022

RoadNats ready and set to race

ELITE cyclists from across the country will compete in Ballarat and Buninyong from next Wednesday as the Australian Road National Championships get on the...

January 9, 2022

Festival offers food-growing ideas

THE Sri Lankan Tamil festival of Thai Pongal celebrates the harvest and the sun. An initiative of Neil Para, the local Multicultural Harvest Festival will...

January 6, 2022

Local COVID cases grow, eight hospitalised

THE number of active cases of COVID-19 in the Ballarat municipality has increased by hundreds overnight to five hundred and thirty-one. There are eight positive...

January 6, 2022

Splish, splash all summer long

THE municipality’s pools and splash parks are open across Ballarat for another summer of fun. Ready to keep families cool and entertained on the hotter...

January 6, 2022

A summer of fun Sovereign Hill style

FAMILIES are invited to participate in a refreshing range of holiday activities at Sovereign Hill until the end of January. The slapstick humour of new...

January 3, 2022

Nursery backs local veterans

AVALON Nursery’s staff love to get into the Christmas spirit of giving. In previous years they’ve run giveaways, but in 2021, the Nursery’s David Winters...

January 1, 2022

Unusual stages for poetry and song

A SERIES of summer performances by two Ballarat creatives are being held in some very unusual, but playful locations. Megan J Riedl and Amie Brûlée’s...

December 31, 2021

Venturer Scout awarded top honour

EIGHTEEN-year-old Hamish Hall has been presented with the highest Venturer Scout honour in Australia, the Queen’s Scout Award. Joining Cubs 10 years ago, he has...

December 31, 2021

Rotarians celebrate successes as Club closes

THE Rotary Club of Wendouree officially closed this month after sixty-four years of service to the Ballarat community. Concluding with a meeting at the Ballarat...

December 30, 2021

Record-breaking Christmas for Appeal

THIS year’s 3BA Christmas Appeals was one of the most successful to date, with record community donations rolling in. 3BA general manager John Fitzgibbon said...

December 30, 2021

Trust gives to Avenue tree appeal

FOLLOWING October’s destructive storm, the Arch of Victory-Avenue of Honour committee launched an appeal to repair and replace damaged and destroyed trees along Ballarat’s...

December 27, 2021

Local builders remodelling museum

CONSTRUCTION is set to begin on Sovereign Hill’s new Centre for Rare Arts and Forgotten Trades and Australian Centre for Gold Rush Collections. Sovereign Hill...

December 27, 2021

Rotarians give to grow garden

UNITING Vic.Tas’s Queen Street Mental Health and Disability Unit has received support from one of the city’s most active service organisations. Earlier in the month,...

December 26, 2021

Guild awards BLOC’s dancing queen

BLOC Music Theatre’s 2021 staging of the ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia! was celebrated at the recent Music Theatre Guild of Victoria Awards. Sarah Kate...

December 26, 2021

Band’s songwriters return to flight

MEMBERS of The Dead Salesmen and Epicure are releasing an album together under a new name, The Blue Lighters. Justin ‘Hap’ Hayward, Justin ‘Ryda’ Charleson,...

December 24, 2021

Live music RISEs with grant

MINERS Rest live music business Regional Touring has received a giant gift this Christmas week. Promoter Duane McDonald received $490,000 from the Federal Government’s Restart...

December 23, 2021

Protesters plead, ‘get the lighting right’

HUNDREDS of people met on the Lake Wendouree foreshore last Thursday night for a ‘Get the Lake Lighting Right’ rally, opposing current plans to...

December 23, 2021

City scores elite women’s basketball

THE Ballarat Sports and Events Centre will host WNBL games during a statewide festival of women’s basketball in January. Six of the competition’s fifteen matches...

December 23, 2021

A night full of carols cheers the city

THE triumphant return of Ballarat Carols by Candlelight had young and old in song, and in the Christmas spirit on Sunday evening, just six...

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